ATKINS Architectural & Urban Design
Contents
o Master planning & Urban Design o Hotels o Residential o Offices and Commercial o Mixed Use o Sport and Leisure
Urban Planning
Durrat Al Bahrain Marina Bahran
Client : Durrat Khaleej Al Bahrain Area : 68ha Type : Residential, Commercial & Leisure Marian Status : Materplan complete under construction Date : 2007-2010
Durrat al Bahrain Marina extends over a 150ha site of which 68ha is reclaimed. Together with its neighboring gold course, it forms an extension to the highly successful main development and complements it in both role and character.
Eustom Station Materplan
Client : Sydney & London Properties Area : 17ha (42 acre) Type : Holistic redevelopment of station Status : complete Date : 2007-2008
Euston has long suffered at the hands of the planners. The 1960s redevelopment is infamous for its disastrous demolition of the stations Doric gateway arch, and is credited with kick-starting the architectural concretion movement in Britain. Xuzhou railway Station Masterplan, China
Client : Exuzhou Economy Development Committee Area : 900ha (2224 acre) Type : Urban Design masterplan Date : 2007
Euston has long suffered at the hands of the planners. The 1960s redevelopment is infamous for its disastrous demolition of the stations Doric gateway arch, and is credited with kick-starting the architectural concretion movement in Britain.
HOTELS Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE
Client : Confidential Area : 111,500m2 Type : 321m high, G+53 super luxury Status : Complete Date : 1994-1999 The Burj Al Arab is for many people the defining image of Dubai, in much the same way that the Eiffel Tower serves Paris. Both symbolize their cities in a way we have come to call ‘iconic’, even though both were designed well before the word became ubiquitous. Beach Front Hotel
Client : Confidential Area : 134,200m2 Type : 302m, five-star hotel and services apartments Status : Design Date : 1996 Ongoing
The Beach Front Hotel occupies a key site at the southern tip of the Dubai marina front marina front and it bounded on three sides by water, like the Dubai Promenade which occupies the complementary position at the north end of the marina. The high quality hotel and serviced apartments and their related leisure and hospitality facilities align with different aspects of the site. Tripoli Waterfront, Libya
Client : Confidential Area : 92,000m2 Type : Five-star hotel and services apartments Status : Concept Design Date : 2008
Throughout the world the most memorable and striking buildings have three things in common. They have a client with a vision and a passion that is shared by local authorities, they have a site and setting that enhances that presence of architecture, and they have an evocative and unique form that inspires and delights. Twisting Tower, Arabian Gulf
Client : Confidential Area : 58,200m2 Type : 53-storey hotel Status : Concept Date : 2004
The inspiration for the Twisting Tower was the architect’s observation of the dynamics of a water spiral. The concept is translated into triangular floor plates that rotate around a central, full height circulation core which is stiffened with horizontal fins to resist torsional forces.
Shanghai Harbor City Crowne Plaza Hotel, China
Client : Shanghai Gang Cheng Development Corporation Area : 67,350m2 Type : 355 bed, five-star business and resort hotel located on an island Status : Under construction Date : 2006-2011
The concept for the low rise, 355 bed Shanghai Harbour City Crowne Plaza Hotel was developed from the award winning masterplan which Atkins proposed for its location, Lin Gang New Town, near Shanghai, Resting on an island in a 500ha circular lake at the centre of the new town, the design is both simple and striking and within the 15m height limit stipulated by the planning guidelines.
RESIDENTIAL
9GG-9HH, DUBAI, UAE
Client : Emaar Properties PJSC Area : 53552m2 Type : 50 floor tower on a six level podium with a spa, health centre, pool and retail space Status : Concept design Date : 2007
The Tower of Babylon, the world’s first truly tall building, was constructed in Arabia – in what is now Iraq –some 5000 years ago. Medieval images interpret it as a spiral structure rising towards the heavens, and it is they that provided the inspiration for 9GG-9HH.
2CDE Residential Development, Dubai, UAE
Client : Ahmed Ramadhan Juma Establishment Area : 33,642m2 Type : 116m, 27-storey residential tower Status : under construction Date : 2005-2010
Dubai marina is the world’s largest man-made marian and 2CDE is the plot number for this residential development. At 116m in height, the tower is typical of many of the mixed-use residential and retail developments that skirt the periphery of the marina complex, and provides a mix of serviced apartments, penthouses and townhouse over 27 floors.
Business Bay Executive Towers Dubai, UAE
Client : Dubai properties Area : 300,000m2 Type : Five residential Towers varying in height from 27 to 47 storey Status : Complete Date : 2005-2009
The Business Bay Executive Towers project is located in the prestigious Business Bay precinct of Dubai, a short distance away from the tallest building in the world. Five individually sculpted, contemporary towers that vary in height from 27 to 47 storey rise form a two-storey podium, providing a total of 1,041 apartments ranging from spacious to luxury penthouses.
Chelsea Tower Dubai,
Client : Abdul Salam Alrafi Group Area : 65,920m2 Type : G + 50 Storey residential Tower Status : Complete Date : 2001-2004
One of the most visually arresting tower in Dubai is the 51-storey Chelsea apartments, with a accommodates 282 serviced apartments, with a swimming pool and leisure facilities on the roof of the separate nine-storey car park.
Offices & Commercial
The Riyadh Tower, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Client : Al Ajlan Allied Group Area : 66,000m2 Type : 220m, 42-storey office development Status : Tender Date : 2009 ongoing
The Riyadh Tower, located on King Fahd Road in downtown Riyadh, will be the city’s third tallest building after Kingdom Tower. As such, it will be highly visible and as a building of singular gesture will contribute to Riyadh’s evolving architectural character.
Almas Tower, Dubai, UAE
Client : DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Center). Area : 183,000m2 Type : Commercial, Retail and a diamond exchange center Status : Complete Date : 2005-2008
The home of the Dubai Diamond Exchange, Almas Tower, is the distinctive centerpiece of the city’s Jumeirah Lakes development. The two gracefully-interlocking elliptical towers of commercial accommodation gently taper as they rising 360m to the tip of the mast at the summit, making it the second tallest building in Dubai and the 18th tallest in the world.
Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama, Bahrain
Client : Confidence Area : 120,000M2 Type : 240m high twin tower office towers & shopping mall Status : Complete Date : 2003-2008
The brief called for the regeneration of a med-eighties commercial development and an under-used park on a superb sea-front site in Manama. Consideration of the context of the existing mall, and extending its major axes, suggested a framework for the introduction of twin commercial towers on a podium incorporating both existing and new shopping centres, restaurants, hotels and car parking. IRIS BAY DUBAI, UAE
Client : Sheth Estate (International) Ltd Area : 36,000M2 Type : 170m high, 32-storey tower located in the business bay area Status : under construction Date : 2006-2010
Iris Bay is located at the south-west corner of the burgeoning Business bay district of Dubai, and sits adjacent to the main sheikh Zayed highway. The 170m high, 32-storey tower rests on a four storey podium containing entrance and retail facilities, a restaurant and café, a gymnasium, a swimming pool and shaded relaxation spaces on the podium roof.
Mixed Use IRIS BAY DUBAI, UAE
Client : Nakheel LLC Area : 42ha Type : High end, mixed-use, integrated community Status : Design Complete Date : 2008-2012
Dubai Promenade is formed on approximately 420,000m2 of reclaimed land extending from the southern corner of the Mina Seyahi entrance to Dubai Marina – the largest man made marina in the world and home to many residential, commercial and hotel developments.
Centaurus Development, Islamabad, Pakistan
Client : Pak Gulf Construction ltd Area : 3.3 million M2 Type : five mixed use buildings Status : Under Construction Date : 2005-2010
Centaurus is a mixed use development in the Blue Area of central Islamabad. It efficiently combines four different uses in a single building. Articulating each use with a separate building mass to be broken down into a more acceptable composition. Zero Carbon Urban Plaza and Convention Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Client : confidential Area : 60,000M2 Type : Mixed use commercial plaza & conference center Status : concept Design Date : 2008
The concept is sample; an urban oasis in the city where the undulating desert plain extends into an urban plaza that sprouts a grouping of plain extends into an urban plaza that sprouts a grouping of palm trees, whose fronds interlock to create a canopy sheltering the inhabitants below from the harsh desert environment.
Al Salam Tecom Tower, Dubai, UAE
Client : Abdulsalam Alrafi Group Area : 94,500m2 Type : 46-storey mixed use Status : complete Date : 2004-2008
The al Salam Tecom Tower is typical of many mixed use developments in the Middle East. It adopts what has become the basic layout for such developments, employing a retail and parking podium supporting a residential and office tower above.
Sports & Leisure
Zabeel Park Dubai, UAE
Client : Dubai Municipality Area : 48ha Type : Technology theme park Status : complete Date : 2003-2005
Zabeel park is a 48ha technology theme park which has vitalized a previously vacant area, linking the original urban settlements of al karama and Al jafiliya to the DIFC, the new financial district. The ark occupies two sites on either side of a major highway, linked by a soaring, curved footbridge.
Wild Wadi Aqua Park, Dubai, UAE
Client : Confidential Area : 3ha Type : Themed Water park Status : complete Date : 1996-1999
The Wild Wadi is a fully themed Arabic water park which, when completed in 1999, had some of the most technically advanced rides in the world. Its 24 exhilarating rides in the world. Its 24 exhilarating rides and water features, occupying a 3ha landscaped garden within the Jumeirah beach Resort are designed to give guests an experience of a lifetime in a world away from reality.
Dubai Creek Restaurant, Dubai, UAE
Client : Confidential Area : 2,400m2 Type : Technology theme park Status : complete Date : 2003-2005
This small, refined building is a response to a pleasingly simple brief and a superb site at the edge of Dubai Golf course, overlooking the creek. The brief required panoramic views of the creek to be a feature of the building.
University of Northumbria Sports Center, Newcastle, UK
Client : University of Northumbria Area : 7,265M2 Type : Three joined sport halls, a training hall, a 25m pool, 40m sprint straights, high performance training facilities and a gym Status : under construction Date : 2007-2010
This new sports facility for Northumbria University will provide indoor sports, high-performance training and leisure amenities for the university and local community. Its urban location posed a number of significant architectural challenges.